Oscar nominees told virtual Zoom appearance not an option

Haley Bosselman editorFox and iHeartMedia have announced the nominees for the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards. Following 2020’s cancelled live TV broadcast, this year’s event will air live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on May 27.The ceremony celebrates the most-played artists and songs across iHeartRadio platforms and will feature a new category, “TikTok Bop of the Year,” to reflect the growing importance of the digital space in music.

The full list of nominees for the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards are finally here!

The American Society of Cinematographers’ five feature nominees—one of whom will become a first-time winner when the 35th annual ASC Awards are handed out virtually April 18 from the Society's Hollywood Clubhouse—represent very distinct approaches to the medium.Although Joshua James Richards’ Nomadland and Dariusz Wolski's News of the World were both shot on location in the American heartland, their styles are dramatically different.

The L.A. Stage Alliance, the 46-year-old nonprofit service organization behind the Los Angeles-area’s annual Ovation theater awards, has ceased operations following the mass resignation of members last week sparked by the misidentification of an Asian actress during the awards ceremony.

A star-studded night! The 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be presented from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, April 4, with the biggest names in film and TV coming together to honor each other’s impressive work.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterTelevision and film executive Zennen Clifton, who was most recently executive vice president of 3BD Networks at studio 3BlackDot, is joining Apple TV Plus as a creative executive.Clifton will work on the Los Angeles-based domestic development team, reporting to head of development and current programming Matt Cherniss.At 3BD Networks, he led all direct-to-consumer content initiatives as well as 3BD’s full-service branded content studio.

Oscars ceremony will be implementing “hubs” for nominees in London and Paris.Following the Academy’s initial and controversial “no-Zoom rule”, which aimed to encourage all nominees to travel to Los Angeles for the ceremony, the telecast producers are now introducing new physical locations.“We can just promise you that we will be more transparent from this point forward,” filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, one of the producers alongside Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher, told nominees on a Zoom call, per

Many Americans, in particular, are excited about a chance to return closer to normal with the widespread distribution of vaccines over the past few months and moving forward. It appears the producers of the 93rd Academy Awards were in that boat.

Producers of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards updated nominees this morning on preparations for the show and the burning question of the moment:  Will nominees have to attend in person or is there another alternative?  The answer to that is for those considerable number of nominees stuck in Europe and other locales around the globe there will now be “hubs” in London and Paris where they can attend the show just as others hopefully will be doing the same thing at the Union Station in Los Angeles.

LL Cool J is raising awareness about the COVID-19 vaccines.

The good news is the Oscars are charging forward with plans for the big show on Sunday, April 25. The bad news is more than a few nominees may not be there.

Every year, ShortsTV brings the best in short film to the big screen, with a presentation of Oscar nominated shorts in the Animated, Live-Action and Documentary arenas. While movie theaters only recently reopened in Los Angeles and Orange County—with Covid cases, hospitalizations and fatalities on the descent—the distributor has already set theatrical and virtual premiere dates in both counties, for the Oscar Nominated Shorts of 2021.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVariety’s cover star Phoebe Bridgers, Run the Jewels and Perfume Genius are among the top nominees for the American Association of Independent Music’s annual Libera Awards, which are presented by Merlin.The awards, which celebrate the independent-music community, will be held virtually for the second consecutive year and will take place on June 17.

contenders to win an Oscar and have been invited out to Los Angeles for a “safe and enjoyable evening” for nominees, guests, presenters and “millions of film fans around the world”. In a break from other recent award ceremonies, which have largely been held virtually, the show’s producers are attempting to inject some glamour back into the event, with “casual” attire banned and speeches encouraged to be short and personal.

The producers of the upcoming 2021 Oscars telecast have revealed details about what viewers can expect from the show.

Zayn Malik and his girlfriend Gigi Hadid announced the birth of their first child, daughter Khai. Since then, the pair have kept a relatively low profile as they enjoy private time with their new baby.

When the 2021 Oscar nominations were announced on Monday morning, more than one woman was nominated in the best director category for the first time, the first Muslim and Asian American performers were nominated for best actor, respectively, and several other notable records were broken.

Academy Awards will be quite a bit different this year.